The Foreign Bureau: WSJ's Global Video News Update

10/11/2013 5:29PM

Kerry's in Afghanistan as the shutdown grinds on. OPCW gets the Nobel Prize. Cyclone Phailin bears down on India, and Kim Jong-Un shakes up his staff again. WSJ tracks stories from around the world in The Foreign Bureau. Photo: Associated Press

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... the rule ... I ... while much of the federal government remains shutdown ... us Secretary of State John Kerry is on a tour of the Middle East and Southeast Asia ... Kerry met with Afghan president coming Karzai on Friday to discuss what the U S military presence will be in the country after the coalition mandate expires in twenty fourteen ... Kerry also stopped in Malaysia on Thursday to promote the Trans Pacific Partnership free trade pact that would link twelve countries around the Pacific Rim ... not everyone welcome carry or the TPP whether ... the USA Summly Fernandes captured the seeds of protest outside a mosque ... located or ... that is ... the use of that twenty thirteen Nobel peace Prize was awarded to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons sixteen year-old watchdog group based in the Netherlands ... the Pope ECW is now in key to its highest profile mission yet ... the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile ... but this task is only getting more difficult ... WSJ's Sam Dagher reports ... Syrian rebels in the Assad regime are stepping up violent clashes in to controlling an area that contains two of Syria's main chemical weapons facilities ... you're looking at the first effects of cycling stale and on Friday as the giant storm bears down on India's eastern coast ... officials ordered residents to evacuate storm surges caused flooding and damage to infrastructure ... the storm is expected to hit land with winds of up to two hundred twenty mph ... North Korean dictator Kim Jong UN needs to public appearances with his wife to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the worker party of Korea ... but behind the scenes kinda still working to consolidate power just replace the country's top military chief ... Gen chem Choksey ... seen here with Kim Jong Il in two thousandseven ... Korean politics are always opaque outsiders ... but it was believed Kim Jong UN is gradually replacing many of the top officials who served under his father ... in an attempt to put his own stamp on the military ... this is done the Foreign Bureau ...